Emily Kaiser

Digital strategist, producer, journalist, writer.

How do you thank the person who saved your life?

In April, Jenna Langer was on The Daily Circuit talking about the challenges facing young people with cancer. Just one year prior, Langer had been diagnosed with her third bout of cancer, which could turn into leukemia without a bone marrow transplant. Langer found her match in a stranger. Twenty-year-old Maxine Renning went through with the transplant and Langer is now healthy and cancer free.

Alisha Neeley's death leads to girl gang truce

Alisha Neeley spent the last night of her life surrounded by her closest friends. The 17-year-old was pre-partying at her cousin's house, taking shot after shot of vodka. Wearing a brown Hollister polo, jeans, and Coach boots, she was a natural beauty with a hypnotic smile. Known as LeLe to her friends, she was the life of the party, playfully pulling girls off the couch to dance. They called themselves the Ladiis and were known as one of the toughest female cliques on Minneapolis's north side.

High School for Recording Arts gives students chance at hip-hop career

David Ellis, the founder of High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul, walked into the lunchroom fashionably late, chomping on a bag of Doritos as he surveyed the crowd. Two students had just started rapping. By the time the chorus hit, a mob of fans rushed the stage for a chance to freestyle a verse. "Do you see the joy in these kids?" Ellis says. "They've got relief up there. Music is saving their lives."
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